Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions)

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The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text--the last text corrected by the author. "Contexts" includes eighteen new selections and two new subsections: "Charlotte and Jane's Illustrated Book" which includes a letter from Bronte to her publisher W. S. Williams; "Vignettes from Bewick"; and "Charlotte Bronte and Bewick's "British Birds'" and "Charlotte Bronte as Governess," which includes letters to Emily Bronte, Ellen Nussey, W. S. Williams, and "The Governess-Grinders." "Criticism" collects six major essays on Jane Eyre, four of them new to the Third Edition. Contributors include Adrienne Rich, Sandra M. Gilbert, Jerome Beaty, Lisa Sternlieb, Jeffrey Sconce, and Donna Marie Nudd. A new Chronology and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Preface to the Third Norton Critical Edition

vii

The Text of Jane Eyre

Author's Preface

1

(2)

Note to the Third Edition

3

(2)

Jane Eyre

5

(526)

Contexts

Charlotte Bronte as Student, Governess, and Teacher

389

(36)

School Register: Clergy Daughters' School

389

(1)

Report of the Cowan Bridge School for Clergymen's Daughters

390

(2)

From The Children's Friend

392

(2)

Charlotte Bronte at Roe Head

394

(1)

Introduction to Bronte's Juvenilia

394

(5)

Christine Alexander

``Well, here I am at Roe Head''

399

(2)

``Now as I have a little bit of time''

401

(2)

``All this day I have been in a dream''

403

(4)

``I'm just going to write because I cannot help it''

407

(2)

``My compliments to the weather''

409

(7)

``About a week since I got a letter from Branwell''

416

(1)

Retrospection

417

(6)

From ``Henry Hastings''

423

(1)

Farewell to Angria

424

(1)

Charlotte's and Jane's Illustrated Book

425

(7)

To W. S. Williams, March 11, 1848

426

(1)

Vignettes from Bewick

427

(1)

Charlotte Bronte and Bewick's ``British Birds''

428

(4)

Jane W. Stedman

Charlotte Bronte as Governess

432

(99)

To Emily J. Bronte, June 8, 1839

432

(1)

To Ellen Nussey, June 30, 1839

433

(1)

To W. S. Williams, May 12, 1848

434

(3)

``The Governess-Grinders''

437

(2)

Charlotte Bronte and Her Publishers, Reviewers, and First Biographer

439

(10)

To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 7, 1847

440

(1)

To Smith, Elder, & Co., August 24, 1847

440

(1)

To Smith, Elder, & Co., September 12, 1847

441

(1)

To W. S. Williams, October 28, 1847

442

(1)

To W. S. Williams, January 28, 1848

443

(1)

To G. H. Lewes, November 6, 1847

444

(1)

Fraser's Magazine, December 1847

445

(2)

G. H. Lewes

To W. S. Williams, December 11, 1847

447

(1)

To W. S. Williams, August 14, 1848

448

(1)

To W. S. Williams, Early September 1848

448

(1)

The Christian Remembrancer and The Quarterly

449

(8)

From The Christian Remembrancer, January 1848

449

(2)

The Quarterly Review, December 1848

451

(3)

Elizabeth Rigby

To W. S. Williams, January 2, 1849

454

(1)

To W. S. Williams, February 10[?], 1849

454

(1)

To W. S. Williams, August 16, 1849

455

(1)

From ``A Word to The Quarterly''

456

(1)

Elizabeth Gaskell

457

(12)

Charlotte Bronte and the Critics

457

(2)

Charlotte Bronte: Author and Woman

459

(1)

First Impressions of Charlotte Bronte

460

(1)

Charlotte Bronte at Home

460

(3)

Charlotte Bronte's Working Habits

463

(6)

Criticism

Jane Eyre: The Temptations of a Motherless Woman

469

(14)

Adrienne Rich

A Dialogue of Self and Soul: Plain Jane's Progress

483

(8)

Sandra M. Gilbert

St. John's Way and the Wayward Reader

491

(12)

Jerome Beaty

Jane Eyre: ``Hazarding Confidences''

503

(12)

Lisa Sternlieb

[The Cinematic Reconstitution of Jane Eyre]

515

(7)

Jeffrey Sconce

The Pleasure of Intertextuality: Reading Jane Eyre Television and Film Adaptations